PAC denies ANC merger reports
August 01 2004 at 06:00PM
The Pan Africanist Congress has denied a report that it was seeking a joint partnership with the African National Congress.
"Nobody within the PAC has ever suggested the party join the ANC," PAC spokesperson Bishop Toboti said on Sunday.
"We have never discussed such a merger and if a matter of this nature will ever come up it will be taken up by the congress - the supreme body of the party."
A Sunday newspaper reported the PAC to have proposed a political framework that sought co-operation between itself and the ruling party at government and party level.
This proposal was reportedly set out in a document leaked to the press.
PAC deputy president Themba Godi, the alleged chief proponent of the strategy, was understood to have had talks with ANC secretary-general Kgalema Motlanthe, the newspaper reported.
Toboti told Sapa on Sunday nobody in the PAC had such a document, including party president Motsoko Pheko.
"I want to state categorically that the PAC has got its own programmes to implement and we are sticking to them. Whether we are succeeding in implementing these programme is something for discussion on some other day."
About allegations that Godi coined the document, Toboti said only the party deputy president could answer to the allegations.
"Godi can speak for himself because we do not know anything about this. I am not saying Godi has done it, neither I am saying he has not done this."
Godi could not be reached for comment on Sunday. - Sapa
· This article was originally published on August 01, 2004
